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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_Y3RfFr9+39SeYA7pMQwzXw) Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Ken McKenna Box 218 Stellarton NS B0K 1S0 902 752-7644 Hi all For the first time all winter and spring, I did not have my American Tree Sparrows at my feeders in Plymouth this morning( April 23). Instead a couple of Tree Swallows have returned to my neighbours bird houses (so far ignoring mine). I assume the Tree Sparrows have finally decided to move north. There were 4 earlier in the week and at least a dozen all winter. I will miss their early morning songs that I have been hearing for the last month or so. On April 21, Rick and Linda Ferguson observed a Short-eared Owl over the reclaimed land of the Drummond open pit coal mine in Westville. This is a large grassland and here is hoping the owl might find a partner and set-up a home here. On Thurs. night, Rick and I walked through a fraction of the site near dusk. We encountered 3 types of "shorebird". There were at least 3 Killdeer sites with at least 2 sets behaving like they might be nesting. There were 2-3 Wilson's Snipe in aerial preformances and 6-8 American Woodcock preenting and in aerial displays. We observed one return to the same spot several times from a few meters away. There were a few Hermit Thrush calling and Canada Geese, Wood Duck, and Black Ducks but no sign of the SE Owl. There were large areas of Coltsfoot in bloom and Dandelion is now beginiing to bloom in many locations around the Pictou Co. towns. About 10 p.m. I did a quick check for Saw-whets in Mountville, but no luck. There was however a pair of dueting Barred Owls, a Woodcock and an well-after-dusk singing White-throated Sparrow. cheers Ken --Boundary_(ID_Y3RfFr9+39SeYA7pMQwzXw) Content-type: text/html; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.18904"> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Ken McKenna<BR>Box 218 Stellarton NS<BR>B0K 1S0<BR>902 752-7644</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><BR>Hi all</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>For the first time all winter and spring, I did not have my American Tree Sparrows at my feeders in Plymouth this morning( April 23). Instead a couple of Tree Swallows have returned to my neighbours bird houses (so far ignoring mine). I assume the Tree Sparrows have finally decided to move north. There were 4 earlier in the week and at least a dozen all winter. I will miss their early morning songs that I have been hearing for the last month or so. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>On April 21, Rick and Linda Ferguson observed a Short-eared Owl over the reclaimed land of the Drummond open pit coal mine in Westville. This is a large grassland and here is hoping the owl might find a partner and set-up a home here. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>On Thurs. night, Rick and I walked through a fraction of the site near dusk. We encountered 3 types of "shorebird". There were at least 3 Killdeer sites with at least 2 sets behaving like they might be nesting. There were 2-3 Wilson's Snipe in aerial preformances and 6-8 American Woodcock preenting and in aerial displays. We observed one return to the same spot several times from a few meters away. There were a few Hermit Thrush calling and Canada Geese, Wood Duck, and Black Ducks but no sign of the SE Owl. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>There were large areas of Coltsfoot in bloom and Dandelion is now beginiing to bloom in many locations around the Pictou Co. towns. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>About 10 p.m. I did a quick check for Saw-whets in Mountville, but no luck. There was however a pair of dueting Barred Owls, a Woodcock and an well-after-dusk singing White-throated Sparrow. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>cheers</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Ken</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> --Boundary_(ID_Y3RfFr9+39SeYA7pMQwzXw)--
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